Trash & treasure: Hong Kong cops scour landfill for $3.7m painting
You would think one would be a LITTLE more careful with a painting worth almost $4 million. Cops are searching a landfill in China after cleaners of Hong Kong’s Grand Hyatt Hotel mistakenly threw out the box near a … More…
This Chinese Auction House Wants to Buy $1 Billion of Detroit’s Art
Poly International Auction, located in mainland China, the worlds third-largest auction house, after Christie’s and Sotheby’s, is willing to spend $1 billion in order to acquire the Chinese works owned by the bankrupt Detroit Institute of Art. This Chinese … More…
Detroit’s Orr Shoots Down Creditors’ $2 Billion Art Offer
Detroit’s Orr Shoots Down Creditors’ $2 Billion Art Offer the frenzy to get a piece of Detroit’s art collection is amazing. I do hope they find another way to get out of debt … it would be a real bad precedent … More…
Painting of the Day (just hit the SOLD archives again): Victor Marais-Milton’s “The New Chef”
The New Chef. here is the largest and most impressive paintings we have seen by the late 19th / early 20th century French artist Victor Marais-Milton (1872-1944). The gallery originally sold this work in 2004 and just had the pleasure … More…